Louisiana Trip Nov 10 to 15, 2014 - Must see and do. English visitors
Jul 16th, 2014, 08:55 AM
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Louisiana Trip Nov 10 to 15, 2014 - Must see and do. English visitors
We are travelling from England and intended to spend 4/ 5 days exploring Louisiana arriving in New Orleans We are thinking of renting a condo/ house as a base for our stay . We would like to take a swamp tour, see plantation houses, explore Cajun Country , sample Cajun food music and maybe even dancing.
We have looked at accommodation in and around Lafayette and Breaux Bridge but but are usure if this will be a central location for the things we want to do.
Some of the properties we looked at have a pool. Will it still be pool weather in November?
What musn't we miss?
If possible we would like to see an American football game complete with marching bands! Are there any school or college games on in the area that we could obtain tickets for and attend?
We have looked at accommodation in and around Lafayette and Breaux Bridge but but are usure if this will be a central location for the things we want to do.
Some of the properties we looked at have a pool. Will it still be pool weather in November?
What musn't we miss?
If possible we would like to see an American football game complete with marching bands! Are there any school or college games on in the area that we could obtain tickets for and attend?
Jul 16th, 2014, 10:36 AM
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If you can arrive a day earlier, the Saints are playing the San Francisco 49ers Nov 9 (at noon) (week 10). http://www.neworleansonline.com/newo...al/saints.html
Have a great time in New Orleans!
Have a great time in New Orleans!
Jul 16th, 2014, 11:17 AM
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Tulane has a football game on the 15th. Grambling does too, and the historically black colleges have the best bands, but Grambling is completely across the state from New Orleans. LSU has one on the 8th, and it is easily the best team in the state if you care about quality (or, considering you're Brits, if you can tell). Then again, you'd probably have to pay $300-500 per for bad seats for that LSU game, it's only the biggest of the season.
Red Stick (or its French equivalent, Baton Rouge) is closer to the River Road than Lafayette. The River Road contains the paradigmatic plantations because: river - that was the commercial artery of the state.
Not sure why you need to venture all over the place. New Orleans is a tourist haven without being a tourist trap (although there are more than a fair number of traps in it). There are plenty of plantations close to New Orleans (Oak Alley, Houma, Laura, Nottoway, etc.). And there are swamp tours galore. There are few better food cities in the world.
It wouldn't be pool weather to an American in November, in all likelihood. As English, you may have a different idea, but the homes you're looking at may also put their pools in winter recess (covered, drained) by then.
And the Saints-Niners game would be a great one to see, if you can. Again: good luck on the tickets, they'll likely be $250-350 for bad seats because the teams used to be rivals and both expect to be good this season.
Red Stick (or its French equivalent, Baton Rouge) is closer to the River Road than Lafayette. The River Road contains the paradigmatic plantations because: river - that was the commercial artery of the state.
Not sure why you need to venture all over the place. New Orleans is a tourist haven without being a tourist trap (although there are more than a fair number of traps in it). There are plenty of plantations close to New Orleans (Oak Alley, Houma, Laura, Nottoway, etc.). And there are swamp tours galore. There are few better food cities in the world.
It wouldn't be pool weather to an American in November, in all likelihood. As English, you may have a different idea, but the homes you're looking at may also put their pools in winter recess (covered, drained) by then.
And the Saints-Niners game would be a great one to see, if you can. Again: good luck on the tickets, they'll likely be $250-350 for bad seats because the teams used to be rivals and both expect to be good this season.
Jul 16th, 2014, 12:15 PM
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I'd try the Tulane game. Tulane is "big time college football" but not nearly as big as LSU.
As to where to stay, agree with Big Russ on staying around New Orleans and seeing some of the plantations along the Mississippi and the swamps south of New Orleans from there.
As to where to stay, agree with Big Russ on staying around New Orleans and seeing some of the plantations along the Mississippi and the swamps south of New Orleans from there.
Jul 16th, 2014, 01:48 PM
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Thanks for your replies. I should have said that we are staying I New Orleans for 3 nights before we are thinking of heading somewhere out of the city.
You are right - we know nothing about American football so spending 250 dollars on tickets is pointless! The game at Tulane is worth exploring.
Can anyone give us some ideas on where to experience Cajun Country and explore its history?
You are right - we know nothing about American football so spending 250 dollars on tickets is pointless! The game at Tulane is worth exploring.
Can anyone give us some ideas on where to experience Cajun Country and explore its history?
Jul 16th, 2014, 03:24 PM
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Hmm. Depends on what you mean by Cajun Country.
We took a weekender to St. Francisville, which may not be what you're conceiving, but it has a lot of interesting attractions nearby - a civil war battlefield, various plantations replete with Spanish moss in the oaks, a really nice small town (itself), and the prison formerly known as America's worst (The Louisiana State Penitentiary, aka The Farm, more commonly "Angola prison" for the Angola plantation estate that it was built on). The Angola prison museum is outstanding and it does not paper over the brig's horrific past. You don't go into the graybar hotel itself - it's still fully functional as a maximum security facility holding Louisiana's lifers.
As for cajun food - visit Jacob's Andouille (http://www.cajunsausage.com/) - it's on the airport road, west of the airport (which is itself west of New Orleans). I should get a commission from them but I don't.
We took a weekender to St. Francisville, which may not be what you're conceiving, but it has a lot of interesting attractions nearby - a civil war battlefield, various plantations replete with Spanish moss in the oaks, a really nice small town (itself), and the prison formerly known as America's worst (The Louisiana State Penitentiary, aka The Farm, more commonly "Angola prison" for the Angola plantation estate that it was built on). The Angola prison museum is outstanding and it does not paper over the brig's horrific past. You don't go into the graybar hotel itself - it's still fully functional as a maximum security facility holding Louisiana's lifers.
As for cajun food - visit Jacob's Andouille (http://www.cajunsausage.com/) - it's on the airport road, west of the airport (which is itself west of New Orleans). I should get a commission from them but I don't.
Jul 16th, 2014, 04:32 PM
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The people over IN Lafayette would probably tell that they are the "real Cajuns" and not those pretenders over in the other parishes. I say this as someone who has lived IN New Orleans and listened to all the back and forth that has gone on for more than a few decades.
Seriously, you have, IMO, received excellent advice for the most part from the others.
Depending on how much time you have or want to spend, there are other places which afford an even greater opportunity to see some of the so-called antebellum homes which were prominent at one point. But to do that you would need to venture into nearby Mississippi and towns such as Natchez.
Oak Alley, OTOH, is an impressive sight even if you don't venture inside. As you drive upriver pretend all those oil refineries you'll pass are simply a mirage.
Seriously, you have, IMO, received excellent advice for the most part from the others.
Depending on how much time you have or want to spend, there are other places which afford an even greater opportunity to see some of the so-called antebellum homes which were prominent at one point. But to do that you would need to venture into nearby Mississippi and towns such as Natchez.
Oak Alley, OTOH, is an impressive sight even if you don't venture inside. As you drive upriver pretend all those oil refineries you'll pass are simply a mirage.
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Considering there are fewer than 20 games per week and at least two are played on not-Sunday (the weekly Thursday night and Monday night games; this excludes the resurrection of Saturday games in December, playoff games on Saturdays, and the two Thanksgiving Day games), the above statement is incorrect.
Considering there are fewer than 20 games per week and at least two are played on not-Sunday (the weekly Thursday night and Monday night games; this excludes the resurrection of Saturday games in December, playoff games on Saturdays, and the two Thanksgiving Day games), the above statement is incorrect.
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